Early specialization in formative basketball: A machine learning analysis of shooting patterns in U14 and professional players.

Growing evidence supports that early sport specialization in children and adolescents may compromise long-term athlete development and high-performance acquisition. This study aimed to determine the presence of specialised shooting roles in formative men's basketball players compared to professionals. Data from shot charts of U14 and professional basketball players during the 2020-21 and 2021-22 seasons were retrieved.

Correction: Perylene-derivative singlet exciton fission in water solution.

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1039/D4SC04732J.].

TcESTIME: predicting high-temperature hydrogen-based superconductors.

Superconductivity can be considered among the most exciting discoveries in material science of the 20th century. However, the hard conditions for the synthesis and the difficult characterization, make the statement of new high critical temperature ( ) complex from the experimental viewpoint and have recently led to several hot controversies in the literature. In this panorama, theory has become a trustworthy diagnosis.

Perylene-derivative singlet exciton fission in water solution.

We provide direct evidence of singlet fission occurring with water-soluble compounds. We show that perylene-3,4,9,10-tetracarboxylate forms dynamic dimers in aqueous solution, with lifetimes long enough to allow intermolecular processes such as singlet fission. As these are transient dimers rather than stable aggregates, they retain a significant degree of disorder.

Quantum Effects Explain the Twist Angle in the Helical Structure of DNA.

Why are DNA bases stacked in a double helix structure? We combined three theoretical approaches to demonstrate how one core concept derived from quantum mechanics (Pauli repulsion) annihilates the contribution of dispersion to the π-π stacking. The helical architecture is governed by a combination of exchange and electrostatic forces, a result that is interpreted from both a computational and a biological perspective.